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The Community Product Requirements Chart is a tool that provides customer insights and creates opportunities for innovation. It summarizes customer feedback verbatim and organizes it by category, as well as by customer ratings, both positive and negative.

The Lite Schedule Estimating Matrix is a tool that helps to estimate the amount of time a project will take in any given phase. It leverages past experience combined with the critical few, key drivers that impact a project’s schedule.

Have you ever wondered how to create a great product vision? Let’s show you. Start with some examples to get your reference frame properly set. Then look at some of the formats that might work best for you.

I had the good fortune to work with Dr. Amar Bose and with the great company he founded. I helped to bring into the world two blockbuster products – BOSE’s Noise-Cancelling Headphones and the BOSE® Wave® Music System. Here are seven product development process lessons learned from our experience creating products enjoyed by millions of customers …

AI and Machine Learning (AI/ML) are not just for Google and Amazon. They are beginning to be a substantial part of new products in unexpected categories. AI/ML is also helping established businesses innovate. Even today, it is impacting how we manage teams and projects, enabling teams to be more efficient and creative …

At the PDMA Conference we described ways in which Agile can be extended beyond software. A case study from the presentation is a company that is a successful medical device maker who has applied Agile in their organization and seen beneficial results such as greater schedule …

Last week, I have had two requests to help organizations implement Agile - but not greenfield, but overlaid on top or within Waterfall. What I discovered in common to both organizations is that there is a myth that this can't be done …

The time has come to de-mystify Agile. Our research and client work show that even those software firms that boast about being Agile do not necessarily follow every point in the Agile Manifesto. They do not follow even half of them …

Agile is not just for software anymore. Many companies that develop tangible products – be they hardware or mixed software/hardware systems – are applying techniques borrowed from Agile. By combining Agile with traditional Phase-Gate/Milestone processes, they are accelerating programs and delivering winning products.

We hear these statements all the time from hardware teams that are trying to increase speed and predictability in their product development projects. The reality is that hybrid processes that mix the discipline and long-term planning of Waterfall …